The Balint Society

Proposed Programme:

09.00  Registration, Coffee & opportunity to view the Exhibition about the Balints

• courtesy of Raluca Soreanu & Ewan O'Neill, British Psychoanalytical Society.

09.45  Welcome to the day:  Caroline Palmer, President of Balint Society UK.

10.00  Balint & his Psychoanalytic Legacy

• Michael Balint in Hungary: Raluca Soreanu.

• His early years at the Tavistock Clinic, work with Enid & GPs:  Jennifer Johns.

• Psychoanalysis within current Balint Work:  Gearoid Fitzgerald.

10.45  The GP Experience of early groups, & the birth of the Balint Society.

• Jimmy Carne: 'From the Long Case to Six Minutes for the Patient'.

• John Salinsky: The establishment of the Society, & remembering Mike Courtenay.

11.15  Coffee, & exhibition viewing.

11.45  Biennial Michael Balint Memorial Lecture

•  "Balint and Virtue Ethics" by Peter Toon
   

12.45  Lunch, & exhibition viewing.

13.45  Fishbowl Experience:  an example of how a Balint group may function

14.45  Tea, & exhibition viewing.

15.15  From The Psychiatrist's Chair.

• 'Balint from the Cradle to the Grave':  James Johnston

• Balint & me:  Khushi Ghazanfar

15.45  Cum Scientia Caritas:  Balint in General Practice.

• GP registrar Balint groups, & the care home pilot group: Suni Perera.

• GP Balint groups & hospital groups: David Watt.

• The Academy and Balint Research:  Andrew Elder.

16.30  Into the Future! Student Balint Experiences & Plans.

• Balint Essay Prize Winner 2018: Inseo Yun (Edinburgh)

• 'From membership to leadership':  Scarlett Tankard. (Bristol)

• Setting up the Pan-London Medical Student Balint Society:  Victoria Whitford

17.00  Plenary

17.15  Cake & Fizz!